write protect

Definitions

Computing

• verb to make it impossible to write to a floppy disk or tape by moving a special write-protect tab

Electronics

• To prevent writing to a given data medium, such as a disk, or a file. Such protection may be afforded using software, or physically, using a device such as a write-protect tab.
• A mode or state in which writing to a given data medium or file is prevented.

Information & Library Science

• verb to make it impossible to write on or erase anything from a disk

Nearby Definitions of “write protect”

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• write head
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• write-through cache
• write time
• write-up
• writedown

Contexts for “write protect”

4 definitions in context
• Computing
• Electronics
• Information & Library Science